Intel

When and How to Hire a Threat Intelligence Analyst

WHEN… Threat Intelligence has become the latest marketing buzzword, often abused and misused in an effort to impress a customer base. So, when do you need threat intelligence and when is the right time to hire someone to “provide customers” with threat intelligence? Well, you should never hire someone specifically to provide customers with threat …

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Stop Having Sex for the First Time – part 1

As someone who’s been working on an OSINT project lately, I’ve had many surprises and hurdles because there’s poor organization to our execution and little to no information sharing between security functions in the same department. I recently got access to a very important piece of information/tool that resulted in a huge discovery…..this is Oct, …

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Words Matter

One of the single most important techniques/activities when gathering intelligence (i.e. intel) from open source repositories is analytic reading. The second is properly presenting data/intel with relevant context. ANALYTIC READING This isn’t the kind of reading you do in the summer with a children’s book and litter of rug rats gathered at your feet, this is …

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